Led by Mekdela Maskal, the work is shaped by training in mediation, restorative justice, community-based facilitation, and trauma-informed somatic practice, as well as by ongoing relationships to land, lineage, and culture. It is also informed by her experience leading organizations and nonprofit initiatives, where she developed a systems-based approach and a capacity for long-term, collective visioning.
Love in the cracks is especially interested in how rupture, when tended with care, can become a site of connection, accountability, and renewal.
We understand this work as a lifelong practice—one that asks us to stay present to what is cracking, and to what is trying to come into being.
This work is not held alone. It is shaped by teachers, collaborators, and traditions that continue to inform how we listen, facilitate, and practice.
We honor the guidance of teachers who we’ve learned from directly, including Dr. Carrie Brown, Char Azad, Florie St. Aime, Meenadchi, Nkem Ndefo, Shilpa Jain, and Terry Parris Jr.
We’re also deeply influenced by the work of adrienne maree brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sobonfu Somé, and many others whose teachings continue to shape our understanding of relationship, imagination, and transformation.